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TurboTax Email Virus

What is TurboTax email virus?

This email is disguised as a letter regarding TurboTax Christmas offers. Cybercriminals use it to deliver Dridex banking malware. Their goal is to trick recipients into opening a malicious attachment.

   
CoinHelper Malware

What is CoinHelper?

CoinHelper is a piece of malicious software designed to infect devices with other malware. This program is specifically used to inject systems with cryptocurrency miners. Additionally, CoinHelper is associated with clippers (clipboard replacers).

CoinHelper's campaigns are largely focused on Asia and Europe; it is especially active in Russia and Ukraine. This program has been notably spread through illegal software activation tools ("cracks"), video game cheats, and trojanized program installers.

   
Search.3bamfz.com Redirect (Mac)

What kind of page is search.3bamfz.com?

Search.3bamfz.com is the address of a fake search engine promoted through a browser-hijacking application. The app used to promote search.3bamfz.com changes the web browser's settings and adds the "Managed by your organization" feature. Users rarely download and install browser hijackers knowingly.

   
AdvancedServices Adware (Mac)

What is AdvancedServices?

AdvancedServices is a piece of rogue software classified as adware. It also has browser hijacker traits. Due to the dubious methods used to distribute apps of this type, they are considered to be PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

   
CoreSource Adware (Mac)

What kind of software is CoreSource?

CoreSource generates advertisements and promotes a fake search engine by hijacking a web browser. Most likely, it is distributed using deceptive methods. Thus, it falls into the category of potentially unwanted applications (PUAs). Users often download and install such apps unintentionally.

   
Volksbank Email Scam

What is the "Volksbank" email scam?

"Volksbank email scam" is a spam campaign targeting German-speaking users. These emails are disguised as mail from the Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken - a real brand of cooperative banks in Germany. The goal of this spam mail is to promote a fake website presented as the genuine site of the aforementioned bank.

It must be emphasized that these deceptive letters are fake, and they are in no way associated with Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken.

   
Terra Wallet POP-UP Scam

What is "Terra Wallet"?

"Terra Wallet" refers to a phishing scam promoted on various deceptive websites. This scheme targets Terra (LUNA) cryptocurrency storing wallet credentials. Therefore, users can have their digital wallets stolen by attempting to access their cryptowallets via these scam sites.

   
Yqal Ransomware

What kind of malware is Yqal?

Yqal is ransomware that encrypts files, appends its extension (".yqal") to filenames, and generates a ransom note (the "_readme.txt" file). An example of how Yqal modifies filenames: it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.yqal", "sample.png" to "sample.png.yqal", and so on. Yqal is part of the Djvu ransomware family.

   
Spdate.com Ads

What is spdate[.]com?

Spdate[.]com is a rogue site akin to captcharesolverhere.top, new-updates-service.com, yoursurveyprogram.com, and thousands of others. It is designed to load dubious content and/or redirect visitors to different (likely unreliable or malicious) websites.

Rogue pages are typically entered via redirects caused by suspect sites, intrusive adverts, or installed PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

   
Reads Ransomware

What is Reads ransomware?

Part of the MedusaLocker ransomware family, Reads is a malicious program that encrypts data (renders files unusable) and demands ransoms for the decryption.

Compromised files are appended with a ".reads" extension, e.g., a file like "1.jpg" would appear as "1.jpg.reads", "2.jpg" as "2.jpg.reads", etc. Once this process is finished, a ransom-demanding message named "HOW_TO_RECOVER_DATA.html" is created.

   

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